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I haven’t heard of v3, I’ll have to check it out.

Depending on the group using it, you can apply for a Community plan to enable mobile push notifications. I do wish Zulip would use UnifiedPush or something like that, or even allow your own ntfy setup, but I’m placated by the Community plan.

Zulip paywalls mobile notifications, but you can apply for a Community subscription which is free, and includes mobile notifications.

IRC is too difficult for normal people to figure out. Normals don’t know how to /join, /nick, and all that other stuff. People want a username and password, because that’s a standard thing that everyone knows.

Even Matrix is too complicated for most people.

IRC serves a purpose, but judging by the success of Discord there’s obviously something lacking from IRC.

Yeah… I hesitated to hit “submit”, but figured the courts would rule in our favor because courts have a good sense of humor!

They are also very noisy, so a basement location might not be enough to suppress the humming and yelling from reaching your living areas.

I guess I see your point, but at the same time I don’t.

Tiny yes, but IMO getting the attention of computer gamers needs to be the next step if a Linux flavor is going to become a household name.

Even if it’s “SteamOS” that becomes the household name instead of “Linux” that’s still good overall. Maybe it’ll turn into how people used to say they had “Droid” smartphones, not Android.

That’s a fair idea, I didn’t realize it was an option to share customized KDE setups but that definitely makes sense.

If it interests you, try it. If it doesn’t interest you, don’t install it.

Not all software projects need to be developed by teams of people with published release cycles. There are lots of passion projects out there.

I went to maga.place and it’s so edgy! Some 13 year old is having a good laugh at their own jokes.

I know it’s brand new, but as of right now it seems like a waste of time to even talk about it.

Could be a different story a week from now, but until then who cares.

Do it again, but select 50GB chunks. This will produce fewer files.

Use immich-go to do the importing.

I’ve never had to restore a backup (yet), but to me this is the best feature of Restic.

I used Duplicati for a while (I think it was Duplicati, not Duplicacy) and although the backups seemed to work, I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

Restic is a slight chore to get set up with the environmental variables, figuring out which directories to “–ignore”, etc… but man once it’s set up it’s just great.

I’m not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It’s command line only. I think there’s a tool to make it a GUI but I haven’t tried it. They have a Docker image available but it’s weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it’s done. I love Docker but that didn’t quite work for me.

I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.

Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.

When it’s time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.

Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.

I’ve quickly skimmed 3 articles on the subject just now, and the consensus is it just mixes evenly with air. It’ll naturally be more concentrated near the source, but there’s tons of air flow in a house especially when the heat is on. One article even said CO is lighter than air (bit not enough to separate and rise on its own).

Just to be clear because I don’t want anyone to read this and take it as fact…

Smoke detectors detect smoke by looking for particles.

Some devices are combo Smoke/Carbon Monoxide (CO) detectors. They cost more but it’s good to have both and it’s easier to have fewer devices.

You can also get stand alone Carbon Monoxide detectors and absolutely should. It’s odorlesss and very deadly and is produced by burning gas/oil/propane or whatever else you burn to heat your house.

Linux Mint

… or maybe it was Ubuntu, but it didn’t last long so I don’t really count it. Linux Mint stuck for a number of years.

Why not now? Do you use the computer for school or work?

Linux is very easy to try, without even installing it. You can load Linux Mint on a USB thumb drive, then the hardest part is setting your BIOS to boot from it.

The survey in question is in regards to personal computers, so it depends on how the question was asked, and how people answered it. If people consider their Steam Deck to be a personal computer that runs Linux, I suppose they could answer that way. But, I don’t think that’s very likely.

Good question. It’s an actual survey (not analytics data) which asks specifically about PCs, not handhelds. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Survey data isn’t always the best data. Linux users might be more likely to take the survey in the first place, for example, while Windows users might not care to.